History Headscratchers / AsurasWrath

* One thing I've always wondered. Due to how advanced the Shinkoku Civilization is, why didn't they try to leave Gaia ad find other worlds to populate? It's stated in some extra materials they came to be the most powerful civilization in not just all of human history, but in the entire universe as well, hinting they've defeated any other extraterristrail civilization that tried to challenge them, even before they were threatened by the gohma. Why didn't they just move?

** When you parry a planet-destroying superlaser fired by God, who is the size of several thousand galaxies, using only your bare chest, you leave a goddamn impression.

** However the real reason it did'nt work on Deus [[spoiler:was resolve. Asura and Deus had strong resolves and Yasha had it temorarly in episode 15 but in 15.5 it was uncertain and shaky.]]

* [[spoiler: Both the DLC endings have a 'To Be Continued' cliffhanger. One for Fighting off whatever's in a meteor in his reincarnated form, and the other finishing the fight with Akuma/Oni. Capcom released a schedule a while back that detailed only the release of those two, so is it a Sequel Hook, or more currently unknown DLC?]]

* This might be me here but is the game running on a bit of a BrokenAesop? We're supposed to accept that the 7 deities were wrong for harvesting the souls of gaea to provide mantra for the Brahmastra to use against Vlitra and the Gohma which would be fine, except the only reason Asura is able to win against Vlitra at the end is because Mithra uses the remaining mantra to fire a beam at Vlitra to give an opening for Asura to charge in. So were the deities actually kind of right the whole time?

* The final ending of the series showed that people still remembered Asura and made statues of him across a city. Which raises the question, HOW IN THE SEVEN HELLS CAN AN ENTIRE RACE REMEMBER SOMEONE FROM 870,000,000 YEARS AGO!!?

Also keep in mind that the Seven were not just gathering Mantra to power the Brahmastra, they were gathering it to empower themselves, individually, and let them rule as all-powerful gods over the mortals they were supposed to be protecting. And of the Seven, only Yasha and possibly Deus were the ones who took that power only to defend Gaea, as the rest used that Mantra power to further boost themselves for their own sake.

** The use of the Mantra in and of itself was not bad. It was the methodology used to obtain it. The Shinkoku were running off of Mantra supplied via prayer prior to Deus' takeover, and the firepower provided by the Brahmastra was sufficient to control Vlitra. But Deus wanted to destroy Vlitra, which required a great deal more, so the Seven Deities set about harvesting mortal souls to power it. That was the bad part of it. Keep in mind also that the game is deliberately running on GrayAndGreyMorality to begin with; the Seven believed that their method was necessary to save the world, which Yasha pointed out to Asura in their first fight, and as the events of the game show, they ''worked''. So in an extreme, brutal, utilitarian way, the Seven were right. We have [[TheExtremistWasRight some tropes]] [[NecessarilyEvil for that.]] That doesn't make the Seven morally correct in essentially perpetuating a brutal harvesting of humanity for twelve thousand years, and Asura's biggest objections to the Seven are the unnecessary cruelty of their methods. Keep in mind also that the original prayer-powered Brahmastra ''could'' have done the same thing as the current soul-powered one did in the final battle, as 75% of the Mantra assembled over the twelve thousand years was expended by Olga against Asura (after Wyzen wasted quite a bit as well against Asura) and then Asura and Yasha's rampage through the Karmic Fortress' core did a lot more damage to the Mantra stores. But what was left as enough for Mithra to blast open Vlitra to let them reach the core.

* This might be me here but is the game running on a bit of a BrokenAesop? We're supposed to accept that the 7 deities were wrong for [[spoiler: harvesting the souls of gaea to provide mantra for the Brahmastra to use against Vlitra and the Gohma]] which would be fine, except the only reason Asura is able to win against Vlitra at the end is because [[spoiler: Mithra uses the remaining mantra to fire a beam at Vlitra to give an opening for Asura to charge in.]] So were the deities actually kind of right the whole time?

* How do Asura's arms regenerate? They get torn off at least twice on occasion (not counting his four spare ones) but they either came back because his body reconfigured after death or he [[spoiler: achieved Wrath Mode]].

** Flight only really happens when the character ''needs'' to fly. Most of the time, Asura sticks to moving on foot because he's trying to punch someone/something in the face/protect someone, and flying doesn't help him much. Flight probably also draws on their power more than running, so demigods try to avoid flying when possible. See: Asura and Yasha using Yasha's corvette to take on the Karmic Fortress instead of just flying there themselves.